A fiducial marker based technique for alignment of simultaneously acquired PET and MRI images

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3307-3310

  Mackewn, Jane E ^a   Charles Edwards, Geoffrey ^a,b   Totman, John J ^a   Tsoumpas, Charalampos ^a   Halsted, Philip ^a   Somer, Edward J ^a   Keevil, Stephen F ^a,b   Marsden, Paul K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIDUCIAL MARKER; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH FIELD; IN-PLANE; INHOMOGENEITIES; LOCATION ACCURACY; MR-COMPATIBLE; MRI COMPATIBLE; MRI IMAGE; MRI SCANNERS; MULTIMODALITY IMAGING; OPTICAL FIBRE; PET DATA; PET IMAGES; PET IMAGING; PET SCANNER; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; PRE-CLINICAL; RESEARCH GROUPS; SHIELDING MATERIALS; SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITION;

IMAGE CODING; LEAD OXIDE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARDIZATION;

SCANNING;

EID: 77951196971     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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